Most CTH readers are likely aware of the term “deplatforming.” Unfortunately, the big tech control mechanism to shut down speech & assembly has now arrived on our doorstep.
One week after the 2020 presidential election, The Conservative Treehouse received the following notification:
…”given the incompatibility between your site’s content and our terms, you need to find a new hosting provider and must migrate the site by Wednesday, December 2nd.
What does this mean? It means CTH is being kicked-off the WordPress website hosting platform because the content of our research and discussion does not align with the ideology of those who define what is acceptable speech and what is not.
What was our violation? After ten years of brutally honest discussion, opinion, deep research and crowdsourcing work -with undeniable citations on the events we outline- there is no cited violation of any term of service because CTH has never violated one.
The WordPress company is not explaining the reason for deplatforming because there is no justifiable reason for it. At the same time, they are bold in their position. Perhaps this is the most alarming part; and everyone should pay attention. They don’t care.
Truthful assembly is now the risk. CTH is now too big; with a site reach of 500,000 to a million unique readers each day; and with well over 200,000 subscribers; our assembly is too large, too influential, and presents a risk… we guard the flickering flame.
Ten years of work assembling a library of factual citations and explanations of those discoveries, positions CTH to be a leading force in the rebel alliance push-back. [Heck, that’s why this place was started… that was our purpose: “The Truth Has No Agenda.”] However, that also makes us a target; hence the deplatforming.
Accepting -at its core- this move is all about politics, this is yet another reference point in the tenuous nature of where we stand. There’s no hate-speech on this website; there’s no graphic, violent, foul or abusive speech here. The ‘content‘ of the Treehouse is the same discussion that happens around your kitchen table or back porch discussion with friends. We would never cheapen or insult that conversation with vulgarity because that’s not who we are… because that’s not who our nation is. So consider this next part very carefully…
The ‘content’ is not compatible with WordPress, the world’s largest website and blog hosting service. The content within the largest blog on that global platform is what has become troublesome. “The content”.
The content on these pages is simply an ongoing discussion about freedom with criticism against any political party or entity that diminishes it. Apparently, immediately after the 2020 election, that discussion became problematic. After writing about the COVID-19 agenda,…the notification: the website will be removed.
Let that settle in…. friends and adversaries alike. Think very hard about what exactly is being represented by these actions. That’s the bad news.
So what are we going to do?
First three priorities: #1 is the security of the site content and research files with over a decade of work; #2) ensuring the ability of our assembly to remain; #3) continue the mission.
In the past several days I have begun contacting people to inform and gather counsel on what is the best course of action. On a very positive note, the Rebel Alliance is stronger than ever and no amount of effort by Big Tech is going to be able to weaken the resolve or block the message.
We will take this challenge head-on and we will use this attack against our freedom as fuel to launch CTH 2.0, a new version of The Conservative Treehouse.
I have no idea yet what it will look like… hopefully not too dissimilar to what we are already comfortable with. However, a lot has changed in the technological world since 2010/2011. There are many new and innovative ways to develop, build and create proprietary platforms.
I don’t like anything about having to be forced to do this. Readers here know I prefer comfortable quality that lasts a long time; but there is no alternative. We are being kicked-off WordPress and will have to assemble on a platform that allows free expression, free thought and free ideas to be shared, valued and appreciated.
Additionally, as I look at preliminary options for Treehouse 2.0, one guiding element is priority: I will continue to work earnestly to be deserving of your support and fellowship.
When this site was launched it was for all of us. A refuge, a place of comfort:
However each of us got here, it’s probably a fact that we have the turmoil of those storms in common, perhaps some unease that we could share and always, we also find fresh ground to cover from day to day. We’re developing valuable relationships as we trust one another in our community in the woods. The chatting in the branches encourages, strengthens and equips for some serious walking.
We think the Treehouse is a good armory for those who doing long distance walking for the sake of our nation. We hope you’ll think so, too. Find yourself a good branch….or just pull up a rock to the campfire.
YOU are what matters!
We have shared laughs. We have lost friends. We have lost family together. We have comforted each-other. We have prayed together… and we have sat still together. Sometimes we are not able to find the words of comfort, yet we know it is just as valuable to be there, quietly, steadfast and eliminate the loneliness. We have cried together and rejoiced in each-other’s milestones… This is the source of my resolve.
We have achieved great victories; confronted injustice; done incredible crowdsourcing work that has made lives better, and we have successfully found the truth behind a multitude of frauds and schemes. Let there be no doubt, that will continue.
I have been somewhat quiet lately as I try to figure out what exactly is the next thing to do. Much like our nation, there is trepidation all around us. It is likely that CTH will look different and we may have to engage and learn some new stuff. But it will be OK.
The rebel alliance is strong… and we are angry.
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SD, I am very sorry hear or the treatment the Treehouse has received from WP. I have never trusted WP for a hosted website. Free sounds good at first but it always comes with a price.
I used Host Gator for many years and built large commercial websites. They were very reasonable with pricing, tech support and have all the latest technology. I have no association with them now because I don’t do IT anymore. I was never censored or called out for anything. I am sure they are still a good company to work with. You should at least check them out.
I know a few people who use ning.com and are very pleased with it as a platform…
It looks like we are now entering Phase II: Full information control for perceived enemies of the state. We are on the “highway to hell.”
I don’t know if it would work for you, but Mike Adams at Natural News.com has a sight without any censoring being done at Brighteon.com which may be worth checking into, he is a conservative, was thrown off Facebook and Twitter for his views, and I can’t post anything from his web sight on either platform. I know there are videos there, but haven’t really looked into it myself.
if you want an inside on how the pieces are moving….
Tweets by tom2badcat
Tweets by MajorPatriot
Tweets by AOECOIN
Tweets by RonColeman
Tweets by We_Have_Risen
https://twitter.com/sethjlevy
Fascism has arrived with the “election” of Biden. This is just the tip of the iceberg. I don’t see this site – and others like it — existing anywhere in a couple of years. Why would the Biden administration be any more respectful of free and fair internet than China?
You had an agreement with Word Press. You lived up to the terms of that agreement. They did not. There are legal options and I think there are many legal entities that would take your case pro bono. The battle for America has now moved to the courtroom.
A waste of time and resources IMO. Sundance has bigger fish to fry and maintaining a presence with wide access is key.
“They’re not coming after me, there coming after you, I am just in the way” PDT
I don’t think it is a waste. This site is an archive, a record of what has really been going on the last 8 years in America. They don’t just want to silence us, they want to rewrite history. It’s important to preserve the written records, like this one. Having the original links and site available for all to see makes it part of the historical record in a way the left can’t deny.
What is available to him now. What I predicted 2 years ago is coming true: The media and social media are banning all non-liberal thought and expression. Nothing will be left open to us. If we start our own, they will hack it and shut it down, and the Biden government will help them do it.
These “big tech” companies are not really “companies”- they are not free market incarnations which blossomed on their own merits but rather government sponsored and protected entities cultivated from the ground up to be message delivery and control vehicles.
Conservative Treehouse is too much of a threat, now they’re being deplatformed. Very significant and very telling. The battle is evidently not going well for the DS.
Sundance is a modern day John Adams.
You are correct about Google and the others, they are government sponsored.
After the 2016 election, do you remember the teary-eyed, latte liberal, so-called executives of Google? They are not even close to the entrepreneurial type. They did not build that.
On another note, from Sundance’s article today:
“CTH is now too big; with a site reach of 500,000 to a million unique readers each day; and with well over 200,000 subscribers; our assembly too large, too influential, and presents a risk… we guard the flickering flame.”
Okay, 200,000 subscribers. I got out my calculator and found out that 200,000 times $10 equals 2 million dollars. Life is easier with money. I can do more. Let’s get to it.
I have a feeling the end result of this change will be something much better than where we are now.
Not surprised.
It was just a matter of time.
Sundance is Sunlight and so must be silenced.
This sight has lifted me up and educated me, made me stronger.
Treehouse 2.0 “What Ever It Takes”.
I’m in.
Contact Dan Bongino. He may have some ideas and information. He owns part of Parler and Rumbler. He might give you some ideas as to how to create your own platform.
Maybe Treepers can help also. We have many posters who might be interested in a partnership as part owners. Your base has been established.
Thank goodness we have people who have dealt with this themselves. I know a few who have been deplatformed and have created their own domains.
Good hunting Sundance. I will await your new location.
Stay Strong, Never Give Up and Never Give In. Blessings to all.
Glenn Beck knows a thing or two about creating platforms; The Truth Has No Agenda was the original tagline for The Blaze. See what he has to offer; many conservative voices such as Mark Levin and Dave Rubin have joined him – he has an enormous reach.
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Maybe reach out to thenationalpulse.com since Raheem Kasaham launched that recently. Might be a good place to bounce ideas off of. Just trying to be helpful.
I’m am so sorry Sundance but as you have stated our resolve is great! I will be sending a donation in right now and I hope it will assist in some small way whatever you need to do to get the job done! You and your team have been a guiding light in these dark times and some lights are just too bright to extinguish. Wherever you point us we will follow! God bless you and all truth seekers – we are guided by truth, justice and light! Stay strong and know that we cannot be silenced or squelched! ❤️??????❤️ Lizanne (lotbusyexec)
Dear Sundance, I will send a donation tomorrow, always thought WordPress was garbage anyway:)
You might want to search the JimStone website for info on how to set up the new site, he had detailed info on doing just that a while back.
To access his site, put this: 82.221.129.208 in your browser then click right and it will take you to today’s page.
Stay well!! Onward and upward!!!!!
Suggest that the platform re-name itself to “Word Opress”……..
This is brilliant.
That deserves first prize IMO!
Funny and terrifying
Immediately issue a Press Release and send it to every conservative and pro-Trump online news program, outlet and website. Expose and shame them for anti-First Amendment censorship.
WordPress is owned by Automattic, Inc.
https://automattic.com/
“We don’t make software for free, we make it for freedom.”
https://automattic.com/about/
“…We’re committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and our common goal is to democratize publishing so that anyone with a story can tell it, regardless of income, gender, politics, language, or where they live in the world.”
For a month or so now every time I check in here my computer freezes, hopefully it lasts long enough to post this, so I knew something was up, that didn’t happen anywhere else.
Sundance, you know you are over the target, keep pounding them.
This comes as no surprise as far as WP goes. I started reading here in 2015 and started having problems getting on in the last year. I have changed up my personal info. and “name” several times hoping to alleviate access problems to no avail. Regardless, I look forward to an all new CTH platform. Hopefully you will be contacting us with this info because this is truly the “Last Refuge”.
One could interpret this move by WordPress as extreme desperation. If they weren’t threatened by the truth they wouldn’t feel so compelled to try to censor it.
I think ultimately it’s going to backfire bigly. The Streisand Effect comes to mind.
WP is threatened by whom? There has to be an overarching body that demands censoring.
This is just the start of removing our constitution rights….slowly one by one. They do not want us communicating sharing Info/ideas. This will continue even to where Sundance finds the next perch. Big question at what point do we say NO and fight?….eventually they will go after your Job, Money and property. Hope they are not allowed to get that far down the road. When this fight is taken to the SC Pray that millions of Patriots are standing outside the door of the SC. This is about a lot more than elections. Final thought ….plz let me now yours….What Motivation…really …would Twitter, Facebook. youtube …google have for doing this…..were they threatened? Surely they know Communism has no place for them and they will be the final victim.
Your right. There is a lot of conservative / mostly conservative content out there using WP. I have no doubt Sundance will find a way so it comes back to, WP needs us, we don’t need them.
I never liked the WordPress thing… I like to see my Previous Posts and Replys to ME.. I ended up getting Hundreds of emails, unrelated to anything… Discus is Easy… Create something like that.!!!
agreed. with WordPress I can spend 10 minutes looking for a prior post to see if there was feed back. Disqus much better
We are with you all the way fellow Patriot. If God be for us who can be against us. Waiting for the lantern to be lit. God Bless
I guess that’s why we gotta get in the web hosting game.
Or maybe go back to fax machines.
Someone pass the word to OANN and NewsMax. Or even Bannon.
To get Newsmax and other conservative live TV channels download the app Pluto TV and you are good to go.
Sundance… you can get help and advice from Bongino, Alex Jones, and the folks at TheDonald.win — since being deplatformed at Reddit, The Donald has boomed bigly. This is a path to BIGGER and BETTER.
@John Mcstain that is great information thank you.
The Donald was known as the place to be at Reddit before they censored and then cut them off. They throttled them for a long time – and, now we see what they could have been if Reddit wasn’t actively trying to shut them down.
matt mullenweg must be in a panic about the coming disaster for his nutjob compatriots.
Brandon Howse has been known for some time as a conspiracy theorist and doomsdayer — a crazy by those on the left.
Last year he had his own website created, and the data stored in Israel. For whatever that’s worth.
Silver lining: learning new things is fun 🙂
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You’re never gonna keep me down!
The Conservative Treehouse and The Donald on Reddit kept me not only informed and sane during these chaotic times. I pray Sundance can gather us all to a new CTH 2
The Conservative Treehouse and The Donald on Reddit kept me not only informed and sane during these chaotic times. I pray Sundance can gather us all to a new CTH 2
contact anthony watts at wattsupwiththat.com he had same issue and had to work around it. unsure what his solution was.
Regardless of what some people might think about him, Jim Stone swears by orangewebsite out of Iceland.
This explains why this happened – not that it hasn’t been anticipated. I suppose we should be glad that CTH wasn’t just shut down without warning or access to it, as I read sometimes happens.
Michael Rechtenwald talks about “the google election” five days ago. For those friends and family who still don’t get it, have them watch this and then the two minutes of repeated nonsense from the talking heads.
Sundance – You alluded to a problem, so sorry you are having to go through this. We need you!
Although the church at large seems to be failing the flock lately, many of them are the only voice of sanity in this world right now — like the church holding this event.
For those of you who would like to attend a good service this morning — starting at 12:30 central standard time, go to Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, California — online and watch Pastor John MacArthur.
https://www.facebook.com/gracecomchurch
He has stood his ground during these months. A good man and courageous.
I had to create a WordPress account a few weeks ago just to comment here. I guess I’ll be deplatforming myself December 2nd.
“The radio will be to the twentieth century what the press was to the nineteenth”
-Josef Goebbels, 1933.
HITLERS RADIO VOLKSENPFAEGER, plays one station HITLER
Then Sundance and CTH are right over the target.
We have yet to fight back.
I tried to donate using a credit card, entered the amount, then selected “United States” from the pull-down list. When I clicked it, the donate program started over. I did this several times and even rebooted the computer.
Any ideas?
I just donated again and I did NOT even touch the country. It must have known from the address I put in.
Try entering all except the country as I just did successfully?
Maybe check your security software. Maybe it’s blocking it.
This is the place that woke me up by explaining the uniparty. Thank you.
Donate.
Gotta move Twitter stuff over to Parler.
Try GAB also. It’s easier to use, though I am using all three at the moment.
Well, this news about CTH has just about put me over the edge. I have actual tears (of anger) in my eyes, and I never cry.
I am so angry and so frustrated that I am not sure whether to punch a hole in the wall, or stand in the back yard and scream. Or just start drinking hard again (after 9 years and 2 months and 4.5 days of sobriety). Maybe I will just do all three.
Good luck, Godspeed with 2.0, Sundance.
Nonsense!
This is a little bump in the road.
We’ll skip right over it!
Don’t let them beat you.
Congratulations on making it to “9 years and 2 months and 4.5 days of sobriety”! That is YUGE and this light and temporary trial is not worth breaking your great record!
Keep up the good fight!
Sundance, does Gab have some type of platform that you could take advantage of?
Wow, one week after election. This is all happening fast.
I’ve learned so much in the last six months since I discovered CTH. And when I have an original/constructive thought to share someday, I’ll actually say more than “I agree….” Everything will work out! Thank you!
Sundance, Contact the owner of “The New Americanist” website and ask for contact info about their host. They were also deplatformed by Go Daddy and now have a hosting company that gives much better service and does not discriminate against Conservatives.
[email protected]
Check out the site if you want to see where Conservatives who used to be members of Weasel Zippers and other sites now congregate with total freedom of speech. Your articles are often discussed there.
https://thenewamericanist.com/
Tyranny!!!!
This is a gut punch. Let us know how, where, when to follow; will make a donation before the end of the month, am assuming the lit candle button will still be operating before the deplatforming date is reached, but let us know otherwise.
In the meantime I normally simply access this site by clicking on a link to it, leaving open my connection to wordpress to navigate from one blog spot to another, should we change this to also receive email notifications in order to not miss the transition process?
Thank you so much for all you Sunance and all the mods do.
meant the button under the lit candle prayer request link.
BACKUP EVERYTHING IMMEDIATELY!
Then, multiplatform with mirrors to provide failover.
A presentation site part mainly requires bandwidth, public domain software and a server, not that expensive. It/they then draw from and update a data store.
The data store/queries can automatically replicate and update hot backups on multiple servers on different providers. It is a common business architecture to have serveral such sites in different geographic locations, to provide “fail over,” in case of an area wide failure.
Sundance, feel free to contact me via email if you need technical advice. I hae designed systems like this for decades.
Sounds to me like CTH may be on the precipice of becoming a top 1% site.
As I read this, I keep hearing Obi Wan in my head saying, “If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.” Here’s to Treehouse 2.0., more powerful and far reaching than ever!
This is all going too far. I’m so sorry for this news.
Looks like John Durham has been censored, as well. He doesn’t want to hurt Joe Biden’s feelings.
Stay the course. America needs the truth! This is war on Free Speech by Big Tech – they will lose and lose huge. By God’s hands, CTH will find a new home to show and shout the truth! Time to #BoycottWordpress! God Bless and God Speed. CTH and the truth shall prevail! We are with you!
You will find a venue to distribute your content, reach your followers and allow an open discussion of those events presented and thoughts that pertain.
Rush Limbaugh knows the fight he is in…with the odds against his survival (this is where prayer comes into being) his employer is faced with a problem not so much different than yours.
What to do with all the people who have looked forward to your presentations? Where will your audience go?
This may be where the “Locofocos” come back into being! Only this time the light may be supplied by LEDs…my, how times have changed and yet not changed!
George Orwell quote: “In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”.
So very sorry SD to hear this. But those of us longtime members know you are always over target, & this is why they FEAR you… stupid B@st@rds!
Many at thedonald.win have your back. They were forced off of Reddit– but also did not let it stop them. Hang tough & I have no doubt you’ll find a solution!
See here:
Link:
https://thedonald.win/p/11Q8lVQege/urgent–conservative-treehouse–/c/
Ok WTH!?! i have no idea what that photo- it is NOT what i uploaded & posted!! It Was a screenshot of the TD post! ?
Trying one more time- otherwise postimages.org has been compromised!
Please let us know where or how you are!
The Deep State must be destroyed!
This can no longer stand for free people who have fought for their freedoms!
We cannot allow the evil doers to win!
God is on our side and we must pray to him everyday to rid these evil people!
Ronni Perl,
Indeed – we will follow Sundance.
Your point about evil people is so true.
Over at the Gateway Pundit I watched an article/video about the demonic possession of the satanists trying to destroy America.
It is a bit long, but the main character is a Priest who is a successful Exorcist. He articulates the present state of the Demoncrats in your country. As a matter of interest I was told that President Trump had an exorcism carried out of and in the White House before they moved in 4 years ago.
Your President has the future of Christianity in his hands.
Pray and then pray again.
I am beginning to believe certain college dropouts turned tech-whizzes have chips in their brains, and have had for quite a long time.
Were they the guinea pigs for that technology in exchange for wealth and fame?
No longer fully human. Controllable from afar, like machines moving as one in inhuman inhumane unison, or like zombies operating via some remote control.
All “new technology” that we read about has been around for a longer time than they let on, IMO.
Then the powers make movies about it and memes. So to make anyone who talks about such things sound like science fiction buffs/conspiracy theorists. I am not one. I read the news about tech and then a light bulb goes off “hey this is like that movie the kids were talking about.”
Zombies. The Matrix. That sort of thing.
Tell me is the number of the word “COMPUTER” 666?
For some time I have thought about “magnetic pulse” that could shut it all down.
But by now that’s oldtech. By now there must be a way to shut down some but not all.
I won’t be surprised when computers shut down everywhere, (but not all: cars, planes and some other electronics; military and monetary systems might be protected? ) Surely some protections are now operable. Like I said, magnetic pulse is now oldtech.
Without computers there are no tech giants. No computer defrauded-fakecounted elections.
No communications for the evil ones.
IDK. Thinking how the world has changed, and not all for the better, with computer technology.
I do know that once upon a time friends knew one another by name by face by homeplace.
We need a way to get back to that. I would like to give some hugs and shake some hands, wipe some tears, hear your laughter, see your unmasked smiles.
All of you whom I consider “CTH friends online” after years of conversations, God bless you each and every one. May we meet for real someday.
Meanwhile CTH 2.0 is what I will look for. But really we need to get back somehow. And together somehow. For real.
Thank you Sundance from the bottom of my heart.
I’ve always wondered why would you (Sundance) host your WordPress site on WordPress dot com. To me that made no sense. I make WordPress sites all the time and we never host them on wordpress dot com. WordPress is open source and free to use and alter, plain and simple. You can even host a wordpress site from your home on a NAS purchased from Amazon (easy). This is actually good news. Leave WordPress dot com. make a copy of your database asap and I’ll make you a WordPress website and you can host it yourself or anywhere in the world. I’ll show you how….
There are plenty of Cloud and Hosting Providers like cloudways,scaleway,imotion,a2 hosting,insta. They have FAR BETTER SPEED and PERFORMANCE than WordPress.com servers.
WordPress is open source Content Management System,
Better to Take Site Backup using UPDRAFT Plus plugin and restore the site to a new host.
Some Hosting Provides provide automatic migration too. (you can check them with their contact us)
It would be better to move on from worpress.com servers to other cloud provider or a managed wordpress hosting provider.
Interserver.net will migrate everything for you quickly and has specialized Word Press servers. I used them for my business and it was smooth. They also provide ongoing hosting services. It is a U.S. company.
Yes, a WordPress based platform is available on most different hosts. Mine is A2 hosting, it offers WordPress. Should be able to move the current site to a new host.